Flower Gardening

Everyone loves a beautiful flower garden, but they don't get to be so beautiful on their own. While many grow them for the enjoyment, as well as for the beauty and sometimes profit, a lot of knowledge and work goes into that beauty! Ask your questions about the propagation, planting, maintenance, trouble shooting, harvesting, enjoyment, and more of flower gardening. Questions about famous flower gardens around the world are welcome, too!

First of all, everyone should be conscious of their diet, eat
lots of vegetables instead of oily meat or what so ever that
contains oils that means food that are fried. Avoid staying up to
late, water and Sleep is the key for beautiful and fresh looking
skin. every one should drink more than 8 glasses of water a day
because water helps detoxify our body by means of urinating. also
dont stress your self doing things that are not important which
only gives you stress. Always think positive and don't think of
your problem too much in short avoid anything that will only make
you stress. Relax and meditate once a week or even twice it will
help you for sure. that's it. you'll see your face bloom.
enjoy.
-BCR

Yes. It should be used between flower groupings and roots, not
directly applied very near flower roots and root groups. Careful
application and proper watering are the keys to success.
I strongly disagree with the above recommendation. "Weed and
feed" is a combination of fertilizer and herbicide, the latter
specifically designed to kill broad-leaved plants without harming
turf grasses. Using it in your garden would be fine only if you
only wanted monocots (grasses) to thrive, and wanted to suppress or
kill all dicots (broad-leaved and woody plants). Roots from
broad-leaved plants typically grow outward from a central stem at
least twice as far as above ground portions (branches and leaves),
and sometime many times farther than that. If the roots of
desirable plants are exposed to "weed and feed" they will may
increase in number and size due to the fertilizer component.
Depending on the herbicide's mode of action, the fertilizer can
enable the roots to carry more of the herbicide back to the plant.
Once absorbed by the roots, the effectiveness of the herbicide will
be determined by the amount taken in, and the species tolerance of
or vulnerability to the herbicide used. Most "weed and feed"
formulations have labels that include a warnings against using the
product anywhere near a garden bed and desirable broad-leaved
plants.

Unless you grow a dwarf type of sunflower, such as "Teddy bear"
you would not grow them in pots. Most sunflowers grow tall, and
become rather top-heavy. Sunflowers need lots of room to
grow--including the roots, which need to spread out beneath the
soil in order to anchor the plant. Even muli-stemmed sunflowers,
whose individual flowers are fairly small (for a sunflower), get
top-heavy because of the number of flowers on the stem. So, if you
absolutely MUST grow one in a pot, select the shortest cultivar you
can, and still put that in an over-sized pot. So, sunflowers grow
better in the ground, but it is possible and challenging to grow
them in pots.

Mayflowers bring pilgrims.
May Flowers will bring June Bugs.
The original poem by Sara Coleridge:
January brings the snow,
Makes our feet and fingers glow.
February brings the rain,
Thaws the frozen lake again.
March brings breezes loud and shrill,
Stirs the dancing daffodil.
April brings the primrose sweet,
Scatters daises at our feet.
May brings flocks of pretty lambs, Hay Fever
Skipping by their fleecy dams.
June brings tulips, lilies, roses,
Fills the children's hand with posies.
Hot July brings cooling showers,
Apricots and gillyflowers.
August brings the sheaves of corn,
Then the harvest home is borne.
Warm September brings the fruit,
Sportsmen then begin to shoot.
Fresh October brings the pheasants,
Then to gather nuts is pleasant.
Dull November brings the blast,
Then the leaves are whirling fast.
Chill December brings the sleet,
Blazing fire, and Christmas treat.

Plants can not grow in sand alone.
If you provide the necessary nutrients and water, as in
Hydroponic gardening, then you can grow healthy plants in sand or
gravel. But that is not 'sand alone'.
Likewise, plants will grow well in sand that has organic
material and other soil enrichers mixed into it. Again, that is not
'sand alone'.
Plants can grow in just about any medium, as long as they have
water and nutrients. Unfortunately, sand doesn't hold onto water
and it contains no organic material, so there is nothing for plants
to use for nourishment.
As you can see at a beach or in a sand desert, some plant
species have evolved to handle conditions close to 'sand alone',
usually by sending roots down far enough to find water, or by
growing very fast whenever there is a rain, or by absorbing the
rainwater quickly and storing it for future use. However, even
these plants can only survive where there are some nutrients mixed
in the sand. Pure sand will not do.
(Please note: this question concerns growing in 'sand
alone', not 'sandy soil' or 'in a desert'.)

Ornamental horticulture is a subbranch of plant
agriculture. It is a kind of garden management for ornamental
purposes and is concerned with growing and marketing plants, and
with flower arrangement and landscape design.